Starting today, horror fans can check into The Institute at theaters and on VOD via Momentum Pictures, and we caught up with co-director Pamela Romanowsky to discuss collaborating with co-director James Franco, the movie's unique filming location, and much more.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Pamela. What attracted you to telling this story by Adam and Matt Rager?
Pamela Romanowsky: Well, the first question for me was “why a horror film?” I like films across lots of genres, but I’m not a horror buff, so this was a first for me. The horror films I do love are genre blending, movies that are character-based and explore things that are dark but still based in reality, and in the dark corners of human psychology. I’ve never really been scared of the supernatural, but people are certainly capable of terrifying and very dark things.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Pamela. What attracted you to telling this story by Adam and Matt Rager?
Pamela Romanowsky: Well, the first question for me was “why a horror film?” I like films across lots of genres, but I’m not a horror buff, so this was a first for me. The horror films I do love are genre blending, movies that are character-based and explore things that are dark but still based in reality, and in the dark corners of human psychology. I’ve never really been scared of the supernatural, but people are certainly capable of terrifying and very dark things.
- 3/3/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Beginning March 3rd, Momentum Pictures will introduce viewers to unsettling and unconventional treatments in The Institute, and with the film's theatrical release list now revealed, you can see if the devious doctors of the movie will be paying your town a visit...
Synopsis: "Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel Porter must escape the clutches of the Rosewood Institute and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost."
Directed by James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky from a screenplay by Adam and Matt Rager, The Institute stars James Franco, Allie Gallerani, Tim Blake Nelson, Lori Singer, Eric Roberts, and Scott Haze. Momentum Pictures will release The Institute on March 3rd on digital and VOD platforms as well as theatrically in the following cities:
Los Angeles - The Ricardo Montalban Theatre (1615 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90028) Atlanta – AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (7065 Mt Zion Cir,...
Synopsis: "Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel Porter must escape the clutches of the Rosewood Institute and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost."
Directed by James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky from a screenplay by Adam and Matt Rager, The Institute stars James Franco, Allie Gallerani, Tim Blake Nelson, Lori Singer, Eric Roberts, and Scott Haze. Momentum Pictures will release The Institute on March 3rd on digital and VOD platforms as well as theatrically in the following cities:
Los Angeles - The Ricardo Montalban Theatre (1615 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90028) Atlanta – AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (7065 Mt Zion Cir,...
- 2/23/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“In Dubious Battle” is not the first movie about a labor strike with Robert Duvall as the antagonizing boss man; that honor goes to the 1992 Disney musical starring Christian Bale, “Newsies,” in which Duvall portrayed Joseph Pulitzer. “Newsies” went on to receive five Golden Raspberry Award nominations, but it contained more drama and gusto than this humorless dirge from director-star James Franco.
This smug period drama follows the conventional narrative of an idealistic revolutionary and his fearless leader as they incite a strike among apple pickers in California’s fictional Torgas Valley. Matt Rager adapted the script from John Steinbeck’s 1936 novel, and the film is largely based on events that occurred during the California labor strikes of 1933.
Read More: ‘In Dubious Battle’ Trailer: James Franco Takes on John Steinbeck in His Latest Literary Adaptation
Franco is Mac, a spirited labor rights activist (some say Communist) who takes young Jim...
This smug period drama follows the conventional narrative of an idealistic revolutionary and his fearless leader as they incite a strike among apple pickers in California’s fictional Torgas Valley. Matt Rager adapted the script from John Steinbeck’s 1936 novel, and the film is largely based on events that occurred during the California labor strikes of 1933.
Read More: ‘In Dubious Battle’ Trailer: James Franco Takes on John Steinbeck in His Latest Literary Adaptation
Franco is Mac, a spirited labor rights activist (some say Communist) who takes young Jim...
- 2/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
James Franco’s Dr. Cairn has some unsettling and unconventional treatments in store for his patients in the trailer for The Institute.
Synopsis: “Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel Porter must escape the clutches of the Rosewood Institute and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.”
Directed by James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky from a screenplay by Adam and Matt Rager, The Institute stars James Franco, Allie Gallerani, Tim Blake Nelson, Lori Singer, Eric Roberts, and Scott Haze. Momentum Pictures will release The Institute on March 3rd.
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Synopsis: “Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel Porter must escape the clutches of the Rosewood Institute and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.”
Directed by James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky from a screenplay by Adam and Matt Rager, The Institute stars James Franco, Allie Gallerani, Tim Blake Nelson, Lori Singer, Eric Roberts, and Scott Haze. Momentum Pictures will release The Institute on March 3rd.
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- 2/8/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Continuing his strike as one of the most tireless and unpredictable multi-hyphenates working in film today, James Franco brings to Toronto the North American premiere of his latest feature, an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s first novel, In Dubious Battle. A tale of labor strife amongst fruit pickers and orchard owners in 1930s California, the work mixes politics with human drama as it captures the rivalries and conflicts that arise in times of activism. In addition to directing, Franco stars alongside Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall and Selena Gomez. The screenplay is by Matt Rager, who scripted Franco’s other recent Great Novel […]...
- 9/11/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This admirably-intentioned adaptation of the 1936 industrial strife novel suffers from a tin ear, flat feet and overweening vanity
There’s something worryingly stolid and self-congratulatory about this new movie directed by James Franco: a drama about a (fictional) Californian apple-pickers’ strike in the Depression-hit Us, adapted by Franco’s longtime screenwriting partner Matt Rager from the 1936 novel by John Steinbeck. High-mindedness, ambition and seriousness are things to cherish, and I admired a good deal in Franco’s recent Faulkner adaptation, As I Lay Dying. But this is ultimately just so heavy-footed and stodgy, with each performance punched out on a single, earnest, unvarying note. The dialogue lands with a heavy thud, and the rhetoric is often a matter of shouting at deafening volume “They’re treatin’ us like pigs, the sonsabitches, the pigs are crackin’ our heads with clubs, the sonsabitches and we’re gonna fight back! Aren’t we?...
There’s something worryingly stolid and self-congratulatory about this new movie directed by James Franco: a drama about a (fictional) Californian apple-pickers’ strike in the Depression-hit Us, adapted by Franco’s longtime screenwriting partner Matt Rager from the 1936 novel by John Steinbeck. High-mindedness, ambition and seriousness are things to cherish, and I admired a good deal in Franco’s recent Faulkner adaptation, As I Lay Dying. But this is ultimately just so heavy-footed and stodgy, with each performance punched out on a single, earnest, unvarying note. The dialogue lands with a heavy thud, and the rhetoric is often a matter of shouting at deafening volume “They’re treatin’ us like pigs, the sonsabitches, the pigs are crackin’ our heads with clubs, the sonsabitches and we’re gonna fight back! Aren’t we?...
- 9/2/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If you’ve seen James Franco’s take on Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God and/or William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” you’ll surely have a strong opinion about the prospect of his next literary adaptation: John Steinbeck’s “In Dubious Battle.” Ahead of its Venice premiere next weekend, the film has just debuted its first trailer courtesy of Deadline.
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Part of the Dustbowl Trilogy along with “Of Mice and Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath,” Steinbeck’s novel was first published in 1936; the plot concerns a California labor dispute during the Great Depression. Franco also stars in the film, which boasts an ensemble cast including Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Sam Shepard, Josh Hutcherson, Ashley Greene, John Savage and Zach Braff.
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Part of the Dustbowl Trilogy along with “Of Mice and Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath,” Steinbeck’s novel was first published in 1936; the plot concerns a California labor dispute during the Great Depression. Franco also stars in the film, which boasts an ensemble cast including Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Sam Shepard, Josh Hutcherson, Ashley Greene, John Savage and Zach Braff.
- 8/29/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
James Franco is set to star in another Stephen King project! It will be a feature film adaptation of a short story called "Drunken Fireworks." There’s also a chance that Franco could direct it, but he hasn’t decided if he wants to do that or not yet.
Franco most recently worked on Hulu’s Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series 11.22.63, which was incredible! That series was just a perfect storm of awesomeness, and it’s great to see that Franco is taking on another of King’s creations. This sounds like it will be a great project for him.
Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up...
Franco most recently worked on Hulu’s Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series 11.22.63, which was incredible! That series was just a perfect storm of awesomeness, and it’s great to see that Franco is taking on another of King’s creations. This sounds like it will be a great project for him.
Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up...
- 6/6/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
James Franco is one of those actors smart enough to know a good thing when he’s got it – the star’s seen massive returns on his comedies with Seth Rogen, and so there’s no reason to expect that he’ll stop making them, and he’s been met with significant acclaim for playing nastier characters in smaller, darker indie fare, which might explain his recent roles in everything from Spring Breakers to True Story.
Recently, the star is also excelling in an unusual capacity: starring in adaptations of works by the horror great Stephen King. He was uniformly terrific in Hulu’s 11.22.63, a sprawling miniseries adaptation of King’s tome about a time-traveler trying to prevent the JFK assassination, and now he’s lining up another feature gig collaborating with the author: Drunken Fireworks, an adaptation of a short story by King.
Franco will star as a mechanic...
Recently, the star is also excelling in an unusual capacity: starring in adaptations of works by the horror great Stephen King. He was uniformly terrific in Hulu’s 11.22.63, a sprawling miniseries adaptation of King’s tome about a time-traveler trying to prevent the JFK assassination, and now he’s lining up another feature gig collaborating with the author: Drunken Fireworks, an adaptation of a short story by King.
Franco will star as a mechanic...
- 6/5/2016
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Following the success of "11.22.63" on Hulu, actor James Franco is set to star in and produce another Stephen King adaptation - this time a film take on King's short story "Drunken Fireworks" for Rabbit Bandini Productions and Rubicon Entertainment.
Matt Rager, who penned the script for several Franco-directed films including his "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" adaptations, will write the project. No director is attached yet.
The story is set in a small town in Maine and centers on a mechanic (Franco) and a retired mob boss who compete in the town's annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. Franco, Vince Jolivette, Doug McKay, Robert Kaplan, Marc Senter and Nathan Grubbs will produce.
Source: Deadline...
Matt Rager, who penned the script for several Franco-directed films including his "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" adaptations, will write the project. No director is attached yet.
The story is set in a small town in Maine and centers on a mechanic (Franco) and a retired mob boss who compete in the town's annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. Franco, Vince Jolivette, Doug McKay, Robert Kaplan, Marc Senter and Nathan Grubbs will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 6/4/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Add the short story Drunken Fireworks to the number of Stephen King-penned fictions making their way to the big screen. Rabbit Bandini Productions and Rubicon Entertainment have teamed on the drama, and James Franco is set to star. He possibly could direct as well, but that hasn’t yet been decided. The script is being written by Matt Rager, a frequent Franco collaborator whose credits include As I Lay Dying, The Sound And The Fury and the upcoming John…...
- 6/3/2016
- Deadline
The biopic about disgraced billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich has a writer. Matt Rager, who has worked on a trio of James Franco-directed pics, has come aboard to script The King of Oil. The film chronicles the life of Marc Rich, who rose from child of the Holocaust to immense wealth before being indicted on 65 charges. Meanwhile, producer Uri Singer of Bb Film Productions also said today that Steven Gordon of Nevets LLC will be funding the equity portion of the $20…...
- 5/10/2016
- Deadline
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push forth next. Prolific, inexhaustible, enervating and stoic with literature’s greats, James Franco‘s selected career path merits its own NYC course of its own. Franco could probably fit it in his schedule and teach it. After tending to the rabbits on Broadways’ Of Mice and Men, it’s Steinbeck follow in the footsteps of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner as book to film interests. Production began on In Dubious Battle at the beginning of the year. Mostly shot in Atlanta, this amassed a crew of players comprised of Analeigh Tipton, Josh Hutcherson, Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ashley Greene, Nat Wolff, Ed Harris, Duvall, Zach Braff, Austin Stowell, Keegan Allen, Darin Cooper, Ahna O’Reilly, John Savage, Beth Grant, Scott Haze and of course Franco himself.
- 11/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Read More: Venice Review: James Franco’s ‘The Sound And The Fury’ With Tim Blake Nelson, Seth Rogen & Danny McBride James Franco is about to complete his quest to make the Great American Novel adaptation with "The Sound and the Fury," his second adaptation of a William Faulkner novel after "As I Lay Dying" in 2013. The film, which stars himself as Benjy Compson opposite Ahna O'Reilly as Caddy Compson, premiered way back at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and will finally be released this Friday. The film is an adaptation by screenwriter Matt Rager of Faulkner's classic novel. It centers around the trials and tribulations of the Compsons, a formerly aristocratic southern family whose wealth and status have dried up. New Films International will release the film in theaters and VOD on October 23. James Franco's Movie Column: Guy Maddin's 'The Forbidden Room' is Crazy With Purpose...
- 10/19/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson and Zach Braff are the latest stars to join James Franco's film In Dubious Battle.
Franco will direct As I Lay Dying writer Matt Rager's adaptation of John Steinbeck's politically-charged 1936 novel.
In Dubious Battle will chronicle an activist becoming involved with California's contentious labour movement during the 1930s.
Joining Hutcherson and Braff as the newest additions to the film's cast are Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love…), Ahna O'Reilly (The Help) and Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga).
Franco has amassed an all-star cast for the political drama, including John Savage, Nat Wolff, Bryan Cranston, Danny McBride, Selena Gomez, Robert Duvall and Ed Harris.
In Dubious Battle will be shot on location in Georgia, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That's Hollywood Pictures is expected to release In Dubious Battle later this year.
Franco will direct As I Lay Dying writer Matt Rager's adaptation of John Steinbeck's politically-charged 1936 novel.
In Dubious Battle will chronicle an activist becoming involved with California's contentious labour movement during the 1930s.
Joining Hutcherson and Braff as the newest additions to the film's cast are Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love…), Ahna O'Reilly (The Help) and Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga).
Franco has amassed an all-star cast for the political drama, including John Savage, Nat Wolff, Bryan Cranston, Danny McBride, Selena Gomez, Robert Duvall and Ed Harris.
In Dubious Battle will be shot on location in Georgia, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That's Hollywood Pictures is expected to release In Dubious Battle later this year.
- 3/18/2015
- Digital Spy
One the perks of being a producer-director-writer-actor is the sheer quantity of circles that the multi-hyphenate tag permits you entry into. For James Franco, this means he meets a lot of people. Moreso than any other non-celebrity might in a regular day. By that rationale, it’s probably a lot easier to cast movies seeing as he knows everybody. Applying that conclusion to today’s piece of news on his latest effort, In Dubious Battle seems to stick; he really does know everybody because everybody’s in the movie.
Josh Hutcherson, Zach Braff, Analeigh Tipton, Ashley Greene and Ahna O’Reilly are the latest additions to a cast that’s already bulging with starry names. This new roster join Nat Wolff, who signed up two days ago, and the previously-announced Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Danny McBride, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Franco himself.
In Dubious Battle explores...
Josh Hutcherson, Zach Braff, Analeigh Tipton, Ashley Greene and Ahna O’Reilly are the latest additions to a cast that’s already bulging with starry names. This new roster join Nat Wolff, who signed up two days ago, and the previously-announced Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Danny McBride, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Franco himself.
In Dubious Battle explores...
- 3/18/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Just a couple of days ago word arrived that Nat Wolff had secured a role in James Franco’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, but the actor/director isn’t finished bolstering his already impressive cast. He now has Josh Hutcherson, Zach Braff, Analeigh Tipton, Ashley Greene and Ahna O’Reilly aboard to appear.Franco is also starring as Jim Nolan, a man who becomes involved in the labour movement and learns about the struggles of workers during a strike in a California valley.The new arrivals join Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, John Savage and Sam Shepard in the cast for the film, which Franco has now started shooting in Georgia, working from a script by Matt Rager.Hutcherson, of course, has largely been busy with the Hunger Games films, though he’s squeezed other work in between. He’ll...
- 3/18/2015
- EmpireOnline
Nat Wolff, who stole the world’s hearts as the cute sidekick in The Fault In Our Stars, is gearing up for another literary adaptation. In addition to his second John Green adaptation Paper Towns – due for release this summer – Wolff has signed up for a part in James Franco’s next movie, In Dubious Battle.
The film takes place in the 1930s and follows the story of Jim Nolan (Wolff). An activist for “the Party,” he organizes a major strike by apple pickers in California, and vies to attract followers to his cause. Wolff joins a starry ensemble that includes Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Danny McBride, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris and Bryan Cranston.
This marks the second collaboration for the actor and director, who worked together on 2013’s Palo Alto. While that was based on Franco’s own collection of short stories, this project will return focus...
The film takes place in the 1930s and follows the story of Jim Nolan (Wolff). An activist for “the Party,” he organizes a major strike by apple pickers in California, and vies to attract followers to his cause. Wolff joins a starry ensemble that includes Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Danny McBride, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris and Bryan Cranston.
This marks the second collaboration for the actor and director, who worked together on 2013’s Palo Alto. While that was based on Franco’s own collection of short stories, this project will return focus...
- 3/16/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Nat Wolff, who you might recognise as Isaac from The Fault In Our Stars, but who also appeared in 2013's Palo Alto alongside James Franco, is teaming back up with the latter for his new directorial effort, In Dubious Battle. He’s snagged the lead in Franco’s latest literary adaptation, playing Jim Nolan. It’s a hefty part for Wolff, particularly as it puts him at the head of a cast that also includes Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Danny McBride and Franco himself.Set in a fictionalised valley in California, the story explores themes author John Steinbeck continued to develop: group behaviour, social injustice, man’s inhumanity to man. A labour conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers’ association is the backdrop against which Nolan becomes involved in the labour movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organisational fieldwork.
- 3/16/2015
- EmpireOnline
Continuing his crusade to adapt all the books on his shelves, James Franco has corralled an impressive cast for his latest starring/directing gig. He’ll oversee Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride in a film version of John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle.Set in a fictionalised valley in California, the story explores themes Steinbeck continued to develop: group behaviour, social injustice, man’s inhumanity to man. A labour conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers’ association is the backdrop against which Jim Nolan (Franco) becomes involved in the labour movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organisational fieldwork. Franco’s As I Lay Dying collaborator Matt Rager has written the script, adapting the 1936 novel. The film is scheduled to start shooting next month, though there’s no word yet on which characters the...
- 2/1/2015
- EmpireOnline
James Franco has announced his latest project will be an adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, In Dubious Battle.
The Interview actor will be directing and starring in the production and has already cast several roles already, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Starring alongside Franco will be Selena Gomez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride.
The novel, published in 1936, is the story of man who tries to organise a strike by fruit pickers in southern California.
As I Lay Dying screenwriter, Matt Rager, has adapted the screenplay based on the novel.
36-year-old Franco recently headlined a Broadway revival of Steinback's Of Mice and Men.
He has several projects that will be released this year, including I Am Michael with Zachary Quinto and Queen of the Desert alongside Robert Pattinson.
Filming will begin in March.
The Interview actor will be directing and starring in the production and has already cast several roles already, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Starring alongside Franco will be Selena Gomez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride.
The novel, published in 1936, is the story of man who tries to organise a strike by fruit pickers in southern California.
As I Lay Dying screenwriter, Matt Rager, has adapted the screenplay based on the novel.
36-year-old Franco recently headlined a Broadway revival of Steinback's Of Mice and Men.
He has several projects that will be released this year, including I Am Michael with Zachary Quinto and Queen of the Desert alongside Robert Pattinson.
Filming will begin in March.
- 1/31/2015
- Digital Spy
Selena Gomez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride have all signed on to star in James Franco's upcoming film adaptation of the John Steinbeck's 1936 novel "In Dubious Battle".
The story centers on a man trying to organize a strike between fruit pickers in Southern California. Matt Rager ("As I Lay Dying") is writing the screenplay and filming is slated to begin in March.
No details are available for the characters these actors will play. Franco recently made his Broadway debut with a revival of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
Source: THR...
The story centers on a man trying to organize a strike between fruit pickers in Southern California. Matt Rager ("As I Lay Dying") is writing the screenplay and filming is slated to begin in March.
No details are available for the characters these actors will play. Franco recently made his Broadway debut with a revival of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
Source: THR...
- 1/31/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride will star in In Dubious Battle, which Ambi Distribution is bringing to the Efm.
The sales agent’s parent company Ambi Group run by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi is financing the feature and producing with Rabbit Bandini Productions and That’s Hollywood Pictures Production.
Iervolino and Bacardi are producing alongside Scott Reed, Vince Jolivette, Ron Singer and Iris Torres.
Matt Rager adapted the screenplay from John Steinbeck’s novel that portrays the struggle between labour and capital in 1930s America.
Principal photography will commence in March.
Ambi Distribution’s Los Angeles-based chief Julie Sultan brought the project to Ambi after previously collaborating with Franco and his company on Shadows And Lies.
Ambi Distribution will co-represent the Us rights with CAA.
The sales agent’s parent company Ambi Group run by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi is financing the feature and producing with Rabbit Bandini Productions and That’s Hollywood Pictures Production.
Iervolino and Bacardi are producing alongside Scott Reed, Vince Jolivette, Ron Singer and Iris Torres.
Matt Rager adapted the screenplay from John Steinbeck’s novel that portrays the struggle between labour and capital in 1930s America.
Principal photography will commence in March.
Ambi Distribution’s Los Angeles-based chief Julie Sultan brought the project to Ambi after previously collaborating with Franco and his company on Shadows And Lies.
Ambi Distribution will co-represent the Us rights with CAA.
- 1/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
John Steinbeck‘s “In Dubious Battle,” which has never been made into a movie before, is the next classic novel to hit the big screen courtesy of James Franco. The actor-turned-director will star and helm the adaptation, which was scripted by Matt Rager, his collaborator on his two Faulkner features, As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. Franco has quite an ensemble joining him in front of the camera this time around, too, including Bryan Cranston, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, Danny McBride and Selena Gomez. McBride is the only one of them he’s directed before (in both Faulkners), and he’s only acted opposite McBride, Gomez and Harris, the last in the upcoming movie The Adderall Diaries. Published in 1936, the book features another signature Depression-era story of migrant workers from the author of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men,” and it happens to be among President Obama’s...
- 1/30/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
James Franco has assembled an all-star cast that includes Selena Gomez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride for his adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel In Dubious Battle. Ambi Group — the movie development, finance, production and distribution group owned and run by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi — is financing the film and producing with Rabbit Bandini Productions and That's Hollywood Pictures. Writer Matt Rager (As I Lay Dying) adapted the feature screenplay based on the novel. Principal photography on the film will commence in March. Read More Sundance 2015: Which
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- 1/30/2015
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
James Franco’s desire to prove himself in almost every medium of art merits serious discussion, especially when his eagerness puts him on a path to direct an adaptation of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury with screenwriter Matt Rager. The novel is widely considered to be one of the greatest English-language works of the 20th century, praised for its successful use of stream of consciousness writing, unorthodox structure, and difficult characters. It’s not a simple book, to say the least, and if it’s going to be adapted, it deserves more than a simple movie. To make matters exponentially riskier for Franco, he himself plays one of the film’s leads, Benjy, a 33-year-old man with an unidentified cognitive disability. Franco holds about a third of the screen time, though he has essentially no dialogue with the exception of moans, shouts, and whispers. Rager’s screenplay is split into three parts, similar...
- 10/7/2014
- by Emily Estep
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Normally when we see Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride get together, it's for outrageous comedies like Pineapple Express or the makeshift sequel from the apocalyptic hit This is The End. However, at the Venice Film Festival, we'll see the trio in a whole new light as they all have roles in Franco's adaptation of William Falkner's classic novel The Sound and the Fury. Franco is directing and starring in the film about the tragic crumbling of the Compson family decades ago. It's so odd seeing Rogen and McBride in period wardrobe like this, and we're very curious to see how they do in this kind of film. Look! Here's the first images from James Franco's The Sound and the Fury (via The Playlist): The Sound and the Fury is directed by James Franco (Child of God) and written by Matt Rager (As I Lay Dying), based...
- 8/11/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
James Franco, it seems, spent the majority of his Tisch career translating the lives and work of tormented American poets. There was C.K. Williams with the Tar omnibus, Hart Crane with The Broken Tower and Frank Bidart with the just released Herbert White. Franco and Michael Shannon played lovers in the largely misguided Broken Tower, and here, Shannon, fulfilling his menacing hulk of a persona, prefers dead girls. Franco discusses his adaptation of the Bidart poem with Matt Rager, his co-writer on As I Lay Dying and The Sound In The Fury (Faulkner, being yet another poet of sorts), over at Vice. For those who are largely uninterested in the musings […]...
- 7/14/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
James Franco, it seems, spent the majority of his Tisch career translating the lives and work of tormented American poets. There was C.K. Williams with the Tar omnibus, Hart Crane with The Broken Tower and Frank Bidart with the just released Herbert White. Franco and Michael Shannon played lovers in the largely misguided Broken Tower, and here, Shannon, fulfilling his menacing hulk of a persona, prefers dead girls. Franco discusses his adaptation of the Bidart poem with Matt Rager, his co-writer on As I Lay Dying and The Sound In The Fury (Faulkner, being yet another poet of sorts), over at Vice. For those who are largely uninterested in the musings […]...
- 7/14/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
★★★☆☆You have to hand it to Hollywood polymath James Franco. He certainly seems unfazed when it comes to the challenges he sets himself. Adapting (with co-writer Matt Rager) and starring in this classic work from American author William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (2013) also marks his feature directorial debut. While it's undeniably messy and unwieldy, Franco's efforts in bring the oft-phrased 'unfilmable' novel to the screen results in some absorbing moments amongst the excessive stylistics. When their mother succumbs to an undisclosed illness, the Bundren family, farmers in early 20th century Mississippi, set out on a difficult trek across harsh terrain in order to deliver her to her final burial place.
- 6/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Sound and the Fury
Director: James Franco
Writer: Matt Rager
Producers: Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta Devine, Danny McBride, Jon Hamm, Dave Franco
The mind-bogglingly busy James Franco experienced such success with last year’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that’s he’s fast at work on another of Faulkner’s beloved works. While Martin Ritt directed this in 1959 starring Yul Brynner, Franco has assembled some of his Dying cast to return, like Tim Blake Nelson and Danny McBride. We’re excited to see the lovely Loretta Devine in the lineup, as well. With the success of Dying, this is bound to be an interesting companion piece. And, oh yeah, Franco also directed a Bukowski biopic and is filming new projects with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog amidst a handful of other titles.
Director: James Franco
Writer: Matt Rager
Producers: Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta Devine, Danny McBride, Jon Hamm, Dave Franco
The mind-bogglingly busy James Franco experienced such success with last year’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that’s he’s fast at work on another of Faulkner’s beloved works. While Martin Ritt directed this in 1959 starring Yul Brynner, Franco has assembled some of his Dying cast to return, like Tim Blake Nelson and Danny McBride. We’re excited to see the lovely Loretta Devine in the lineup, as well. With the success of Dying, this is bound to be an interesting companion piece. And, oh yeah, Franco also directed a Bukowski biopic and is filming new projects with Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog amidst a handful of other titles.
- 2/7/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
We've got a couple of new trailers recently for some of the upcoming higher profile independent movies coming up for the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis and Shia Lebouf's upcoming Charlie Countryman. On top of that we've also got a new film clip from James Franco's As I Lay Dying. Since these are all new, I decided to round them up in one convenient spot for you!
I know we have the Indie Beat section, but for some of these more 'high profile' independent projects I feel it's best to present them in the regular news section. To that end, I bring you a pair of new trailers and a film clip. Let's get to it!
Franco and Matt Rager, As I Lay Dying is adapted from the 1930 classic American novel by William Faulkner. The story chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the...
I know we have the Indie Beat section, but for some of these more 'high profile' independent projects I feel it's best to present them in the regular news section. To that end, I bring you a pair of new trailers and a film clip. Let's get to it!
Franco and Matt Rager, As I Lay Dying is adapted from the 1930 classic American novel by William Faulkner. The story chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the...
- 10/9/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Looking forward to seeing James Franco's film adaptation of the classic Faulkner novel, "As I Lay Dying" in theaters? Seems you won't have your chance because the film, which premiered at Cannes last year, will be going straight to iTunes, VOD, iVOD and DVD, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Directed and co-written by Franco (along with Matt Rager), the film also stars Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green and Ahna O'Reilly. It was originally slated to open theatrically on Sept. 27, but instead, Millenium will release the film directly on iTunes on Oct. 22, and on VOD/iVOD and DVD on Nov. 5. Given the challenging source material about an impoverished Mississippi family struggling to give its recently deceased matriarch an appropriate burial, it's not entirely surprising that the film won't be hitting theaters. In his review of the film from Cannes, Boyd van Hoeij wrote, "Given that the original novel has...
- 9/26/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
A new poster has arrived for Millennium Entertainment's As I Lay Dying drama stars and is directed by James Franco. The film is adapted from the 1930 classic American novel by William Faulkner by Matt Rager and Franco. As I Lay Dying chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie’s husband Anse and their children, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and the youngest one Vardaman, leave the farm on a carriage with her coffin - each affected by Addie’s death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson, some forty miles away, is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers, injury and accident, a raging barn fire, and not least of all -- each individual character’s personal turmoil and inner commotion which at times...
- 7/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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